Well, as was mentioned, the question is "what type of commodity hardware". You can easily buy motherboards now with PCI X (express). Then, you also have to consider USB network cards, which I assume are a different bus system as well. It all matters if you are in a controlled environment or you have to work with lowest common denominator. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> To: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 3:11 AM Subject: Re: Linux based router for Gigabit traffic > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Gigabit routing is possible with commodity hardware. It's a software > > problem for the cases that go fast enough currently. > > To properly handle full duplex gigabit speeds at 300 bytes average packet > size we need approx 800k packets per second. > > So I guess the question should be rephrased into "how many packets per > second can you get commodity architecture to do?" because that's of more > interest than how many megabit/s we can handle (as it's usually the > limiting factor). > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
